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Yep, here's a brief overview of that from 2007 https://youtu.be/NJ9Jml0GBPk?t=1937 https://youtu.be/NJ9Jml0GBPk?t=1937 . SPARC64 is a favorite of this developer
by aomix 10y ago
Yep, here's a brief overview of that from 2007 https://youtu.be/NJ9Jml0GBPk?t=1937 https://youtu.be/NJ9Jml0GBPk?t=1937 . SPARC64 is a favorite of this developer because it's some Alice in Wonderland stuff where up is down and left is right compared to other architectures. So it exposes a number of bugs that others don't.
Bugs exposed by moving to different architectures are fascinating. They always originate from assumptions that just happen to work on the architecture they were designed on. But when you go to a different arch they go from being sort of harmlessly incorrect to crash and burn type of incorrect. Or, infinitely worse, a sort of works but not in the way you expect it situation.